Detention News

Pyongyang -
Merrill E. Newman, an 85-year-old U.S. citizen, has been detained in North Korea for more than a month, has delivered an “apology,” for allegedly killing troops and civilians during the Korean War.

Washington -
Late last night the Senate reached a quiet compromise to pass the defense authorization bill. Toward the end of the bill, the National Defense Authorization Act says that if passed, it will also apply to Americans "if we want it to."

Some of the more than 100 asylum seekers detained at the Sydney detention center in Australia have reportedly been injured as firefighters tried to extinguish fire on at least nine buildings earlier torched by detainees who were denied visa to Australia.

Where do you draw the line on the detention and prosecution of suspected terrorists, and should we raise or lower the bar with respect to “suspected belligerents” who have clear and present intent to do harm to the US.

Of the two Israeli journalists who are involved in an exclusive story about the Israeli army assassinating targeted Palestinians, one is said to be under house arrest; the other left the country months ago.

It's getting more complicated with the legal issues of detainees from the War against Terror. A federal judge has now ruled that some of the long-term prisoners at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan have the same rights as the ones at Gitmo.

The British state's attempt to push through detention without charge for 42 days is a precursor to a plan to impose indefinite internment, targeted disproportionately against Muslims and ethnic minorities.

Britain's embattled Labour government is on a collision course with the Conservative and Liberal opposition and even some of it's MP's over plans to increase the limit on the number of days terror suspects can be held.

A Middle School sent a 13-year-old girl to detention for two days for hugging twice. The school said she violated a school policy banning public displays of affection. The girl said she hugged them and said goodbye.

In the UK, the Home Secretary, Mr John Reid announces a crack down on the way the judicial system deals with those behind terror attacks. In the firing line will be the statutory 28 day detention which the police are allowed to use at the present time